I had a previous post regarding the inability to burn an audio CD. The following is the results of a 3 week journey through the dark forest of despair to the golden land of success.
I couldn't burn a audio CD using K3B on my laptop. I am running openSuSE SLICK with a HP dvd630e external writer connected through the USB port. It had successfully written DVDs previously. Since the burning always stopped at the same spot to the byte, I put it down to corrupted tracks, or deliberate copy prevention corruption. After several (many) failures, I tried burning on my Win2000 machine. Using the internal burner and Nero, it worked fine. I installed the HP drive on the Win2000 box, and it burned perfectly (thank goodness for simulation). Obviously, it wasn't corrupted tracks or a bad drive. Meanwhile, I am googling like crazy trying to find any clue as to what is going on. Not much info out there. The errors were mainly write errors with some 'media not found' or 'bad media' tossed in for good measure. I then thought I would try writing a dvd. Well, you can guess how much success I had with that. My wife was starting to get testy (really testy) about all of the time I was devoting to this search to find the problem. I am starting to doubt that I ever burned data using this system. I finally had the thought to remove the other devices that I had on the USB ports. I had a 4 port hub in the computer's second port with an Epson scanner, and a HP Deskjet printer connected. The errors disappeared. WOW! It looks like one of the devices (I suspect the scanner) was generating spurious signals and interfering the the operation of the burner. My son, who works in a call centre for a large computer manufacturer says that they have been getting calls where a machine would not boot up. It has been tracked down to buggy BIOS where it tries to boot through the USB port to a printer, or scanner. or other such device. My laptop may be suffering from this problem in handling USB traffic although the scanner and printer work perfectly. This appears to be one more thing to add to your list of solutions associated with weird problems. This shows that you should always try to reduce the variables that can affect a process when you are trying to trouble-shoot. I should have known that! Anyway, God is in His Heaven, all is right with the world, and I can backup my data to DVDs again. BTW SLICK is great. The laptop performs better than when I was running 9.3 Pro, and the ability to update, and select additional programs through SMART or KYNAPTIC is inspired. A great job everyone! Tom. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
